[04-05-2012]
MuteMyMic 1.7.1 is available in App Store
This release addresses issues related to Snow Leopard installation. You can test application before you buy it here. If you prefer App Store version, check it out here.
[04-05-2012]
Programming iOS 5 by Matt Neuburg
Summary: Updated to reflect recent changes in iOS This book is simply a new release of “Programming iOS 4”. It contains lots of new information you won’t find in previous release – mostly related to most recent changes in iOS 5. One of these features are story boards. Basically, whenever story boards are applicable, you […]
[30-04-2012]
Path Finder 6.0.1
I have decided to upgrade to Path Finder 6 as soon as it was released. I have even skipped 30 days trial you are given when upgrading – which is quite convenient if you are not sure whether to upgrade or not. What has been improved: – PF 6 is slightly redesigned (it gained better […]
[27-04-2012]
Java OS X – setting default version
In OS X it is fairly easy to set default Java version. Simply start following application open /Applications/Utilities/Java\ Preferences.app/ Note! This is no longer valid for OS X 10.7 and Oracle’s Java version. If you have Java 1.7 installed go to: System Preferences -> Other -> Java You can also determine current version’s home location […]
[27-04-2012]
Java 1.7 OS X location
Oracle has released officially Java 1.7 for Mac OS X (Lion only). After installing it you can find installed Java Virtual Machine at following location /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk this is slightly different from the schema used by Apple /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines but still works. What’s more important, you can download JDK 1.7 bundled with NetBeans 7.1.2 here!
[26-04-2012]
Head First C by D & D Griffiths
Summary: Comprehensive introduction to C C is not an easy to learn language. It has lots of places where you can get lost if you are not familiar with low level programming. When it comes to Head First C, it tries to present material as simply as possible. I’d suggest it as 101 course on […]
[24-04-2012]
Traits of a Jackass Manager by Charles A. Sennewald
Summary: Hilarious – just about right 45 minutes and that’s it. You know what flaws are ahead if you have just became a manager. What kind of icebergs are waiting for you to crash during your day to day work. And the fact is – everything depends on you and your attitude. This book is […]
[22-04-2012]
XCode 4.2 and (gdb) Console
You are not sure where an exception comes from. It’s simple. Use info command. info line *0x###### Update: echo “put your stack trace here” | tr ‘ ‘ ‘\n’ | sed ‘s/^/info line \*/g’ e.g. echo “0x22e5052 0x2476d0a 0x3d47e0 0x3a42b1 \ 0x3bbfa7 0x97e87 0x535e8 0x55e74 0x556ca \ 0x41b85 0x17fb4e6 0x17fb457 0x9855ced9 \ 0x985606de” | tr […]
[20-04-2012]
The Art of SEO by Eric Enge et al.
Summary: Comprehensive book for anyone who is interested in SEO I really enjoyed this book because it shows you different aspects of web search. The best in the book is that when you read it, you say – “I knew that already!”, but funny thing is that you still haven’t put this knowledge into practice. […]
[17-04-2012]
Hack4Europe! 2012 – Warsaw, Copenhagen
Hack4Europe! is a series of hack days organised by the Europeana Foundation and its partners and provide an exciting environment to explore the potential of open cultural data for social and economic growth in Europe. To feel the atmosphere to the event you can read a short summary of one of the events from the […]
[16-04-2012]
Polycom m100 and router configuration for correct port forwarding (NAT) – no audio, no video
In case you want to use Polycom m100 through the LiveBox, you have to set it up correctly. You can tell that you have incorrect settings if you get following message: “A firewall on the computer or network may be blocking the audio and video sent from the far end. Please read the trouble shooting […]
[13-04-2012]
XCode 3.2.3 installation
If you are getting unknown error during installation simply change date to 01-01-2012. Installation should proceed fine from that point.
[03-04-2012]
Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management by Marc Delisle
Summary: Really nice read – tutorial like This book is really a good read. First off all, it will guide your through all the odds and ends of phpMyAdmin. In case you have never ever worked with this tool before, there is no better place to start. Marc shows various aspects of phpMyAdmin basing his […]
[02-04-2012]
Think Complexity by Allen B. Downey
Summary: Challenging but rewarding This one is not an easy one. Allen guides you through the various, complex, algorithms and data structures. This book is not for a beginners – you have to know Python already to solve exercises presented by author. The complexity of the book itself is also rather for slightly advanced developers. […]
[28-03-2012]
Startup sound – this is really annoying
I have had enough of it. It’s so frustrating to have the startup sound turned on. So, basically I have managed it on my own. Using Startup Items you can easily do a thing and remove the annoying “boiiiinnngggg” each time you start your mac. Stay tuned to check out the details.
[26-03-2012]
OS X secondary click with trackpad
When it comes to trackpad I like to have both options enabled: – secondary click with right corner – secondary click with double finger tap at the trackpad Preferences panel don’t give you both. You have to choose. Either this one or that one. Execute following commands and you will get both at the same […]
[26-03-2012]
OS X 10.7 – click to drag
In case you miss Leopard’s feature that allows you to click and drag window, here is how you can enable it. This feature is no longer available in Trackpad preferences. System Preferences -> Universal Access -> -> Mouse & Trackpad (tab) -> Trackpad options … (at the bottom) -> -> [x] Dragging – with Drag […]
[10-03-2012]
Running Lean, 2nd Edition by Ash Maurya
Summary: Interesting, but too shallow Every startup has it’s good and bad days. Question is, what to do, when you find that your initial idea is not quite as good as you expected it to be. Ash tries to answer this question by providing clean path to the success. By describing various aspects of running […]
[07-03-2012]
Removing applications OS X – forget the app
Sometimes, OS X doesn’t clean application related information properly. This is very common in case you make a development and have different version around the system (Debug/Release). You can always look for the artifacts related to application following way: shell> pkgutil –pkgs | grep ApplicationName You will get the bundle name of the application (e.g. […]